pedro.silva
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hi APLman!
just make sure you don't write your document so it must be interpreted right to left -- please! ;-)
cheers,
pedro
Thanks for your comment Xaver. I had not found that previous post.
I noticed there that some folks think the scaling option is not very useful in its present form. I hope to see it fixed properly, because PTE's animation is a great fun, flexible feature. As I see it, there are several problems to be addressed ... if we users can agree on what we want! I'm working on a suggestion document for the "Ideas and Suggestions for Next Versions" sub-forum.
Regards
(APLman) Ken
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greetings!
when all image files are in one single folder, i just copy the pte file to a new file with a different filename (just in case), and have a go with my favorite text editor, exercising search-and-replace. simple and works...
cheers,
pedro
As mentioned, the use of a 'backup in zip' cures all of these problems, and is therefore a good habit to get into as a matter of routine with all slideshow production.
However, one point worth noting is this.
Much of the time when you create a slideshow you gather your files into one folder during its production.
If that folder is then subsequently moved, you create the difficulty we are discussing here of 'files not found' in PTE.
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thank you lin, for your assistance, as usual.
i've just spent some time there, and what i found is pretty much what i remembered. pages flipping nicely, but only one page visible at a time (presumably using the existing curling of page effects). or two pages at a time, but with stiff flipping, and templates with lots of bits and pieces, and that would require a lot of work, to adapt to different formats, and more than a few pages. (and a lot of some very fancy pseudo-3d stuff, nice but not what i'm after).
maybe i need to look deeper in thedom's place, but i don't think i'll find what i mean: a realistic book effect, with a "book spine" in the center of the screen, and pages that curl when we flip the "book" back and forth. showing the next (or previous) page in the back of the curling page would come automatically, without having to load the same image in several places of several slides. i think maybe we need a new transition effect...
cheers,
pedro
Hi Pedro,theDom (Dominick) has done this in many different ways - perhaps a trip to his site for one of his templates would help - at least have a look:
Best regards,
Lin
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greetings!
i'm not sure i should ask this here or post as a request for the future... let me try here, maybe it can be done already.
what i'm after is a "realistic" book effect, like that of many flash slide shows made with other tools. i think that something along the lines of using the current "curling of page" effects would be fine, but with the option of a "book spine" in the center of the screen. can this be done now, in a way that's simpler to understand and modify than existing templates -- and if so, how? if not, maybe this should be a nice addition, as a new effect, for a future version...
cheers,
pedro
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Yachtsman1: hit and run? classy...
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it's taken me this long to get to this show, but i'm glad i did. i liked it a lot. in fact, i don't know how higher resolution images would look, but i very much doubt they would improve the sequence. i think that all that obvious pixelization actually helps the mood. i can't believe i'm saying this, for i'm a high resolution freak, but there you are. congrats!
cheers,
pedro
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i think that long pans, like long zooms, are not for everyone. and like (most) everything else, they may be abused. they may also be put to good use. lin's mesa verde show comes to mind immediately. my own show ( http://webpages.fc.ul.pt/~pjns/Temp/memorial.zip ) also comes to my mind -- boring? you decide; but both effects serve the intended purpose well.
cheers,
pedro
Am I the only person who finds these long panorama/pans monotonous? No disrespect to the authors or the images, but they do nothing for me at all. In fact I don't think I have seen one used in a slide show that I have thought adds anything of value to that show.Panoramas look great on a large print, when panning slowly on and on, not for me I am afraid.
Am I alone with this view or are people reluctant to say it.
I don't mind a slow pan for a few seconds, but feel there is a limit reached when it doesn't work at all.
I did try one in my Week in the Highlands show below, but had to take it out becuase it spoilt the flow of the sequence. IMHO of course
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Yachtsman1,
obviously, i didn't take enough time/care to explain my meaning. if you read the thread carefully, you'll notice that both lin and i couldn't not see the link he was kind enough to include twice. then, both of us could see it, even in the older message. i suspect that the reasons for this have to do with something in the server (if it were just me, it could be something on my machine, even though i haven't changed anything in the meantime, in fact, i haven't even rebooted; as it happened to both of us, it can't be anything on my side). as such, it is not interesting for me to pursue, or worth bothering lin about -- especially since the link is now visible, and so i could follow it. is it clear now?
cheers,
pedro
and i'm not really sure i care.That's not an appropriate reply to someone trying to help, & won't illicet future help
Yachtsman1
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lin,
i can see it now! don't know why it didn't show before (i assure you it didn't!) and i'm not really sure i care.
again, thank you for bearing with me and helping with this.
cheers,
pedro
Hi Pedro,I see it, I can't understand why you don't. It's on the original reply.
Best regards,
Lin
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i don't mean to be a nag, but i can't find "the link below"...
I couldn't find it either so I wrote it again - hope it shows up......
as you might have noticed, it's still not showing up. oh well... thanx for trying to help anyway!
cheers,
pedro
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lin, thanx for your reply!
I can't find the original post, but I did find my reply to JPD and a link to his pano. Click on the link below then scroll down three threads and click on the word "Here" in the quote.i don't mean to be a nag, but i can't find "the link below"...
You don't want to make a conventional 360 pano but rather 360 degrees of straight line beginning to end with the last frame equivalent to the first frame.well, that sounds like "a conventional 360 pano" to me, just not a 360x180 pano...
So you have an extremely wide pano composed of the individual frames beginning with some particular subject and after multiple overlapping stitched frames ending with the same subject. You then insert this very wide stitched straight pano in PTE and scroll from left to right.ok, i get it. i was hoping pte would smoothly cross the 360 line, automagically restarting at the left end. but that would be way too boring for some, so it may be best to just pan left to right and stop there...
cheers,
pedro
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JPD's (Jean Pierre's) really innovative 360 panorama ...
you picked my curiosity, would you kindly give a link to jpd's show? i can't seem to find it...
i have no trouble making 360 panos, but don't know how to make smooth 360+ transitions in pte, perhaps jpd's show would help?
cheers, and tia,
pedro
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thank you all for your feedback -- all comments taken onboard!
please allow me to be especially glad for lin's comment, as his zooms provided some of the inspiration.
i also see the moire-like interference patterns that come and go, but wasn't sure whether it just just on my machine. glad to know it will be virtually eliminated by recompiling with a new version, but i'll wait for the next "proper" version.
the black bands are due to the different aspect ratios of the monitors, not much that can be done about it, i think. the show was prepared for a 1.6 monitor (such as a 1280x800), which it should fill.
cheers,
pedro
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greetings!
i've been meaning to do this for a while, and finally did it. a very long zoom of a special place.
it's about 7mb, runs for 4 minutes, and can be found at http://webpages.fc.ul.pt/~pjns/Temp/memorial.zip .
it runs ok in my computer, but i would very much welcome your input, especially if critical (technical as well as artistic).
cheers,
pedro
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hi igor,
I feel we can't publish such decompiler tool. Some authors of slideshow will not like this idea.this seems to me a very wise decision!
Probably we will add global option to PicturesToExe and authors will decide allow or prohibit
unpacking of their slideshows from EXE to images and music files.
i would ask for more: an option to encrypt the images when integrating them into the exe, which would of course be undone by the exe itself upon execution. this would make it a bit harder for third parties to steal our images. it would not be absolutely safe, since the decrypting code would be part of the exe. nothing ever is absolutely safe, but this would give an added and welcome safety level.
cheers,
pedro
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neil and others,
thanx for your comments. i gather the visual part has not shocked anyone as exagerated or tacky, or too poor.
ok, you have convinced me, i'll try to work on some sound. for now though, i suggest john cage's classic piece 4'33" (it has just the right duration too
)cheers,
pedro
ps. if you don't know it, you can learn about it at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4%E2%80%B233%E2%80%B3 .
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thank you al for your kind words. well chosen audio should indeed enhance the show, but i fear that an ill chosen one would actually detract from the images. i don't know how to choose, and the visual part was hard enough as it is. i'll keep trying, though, thanx for the encouragement!
cheers,
pedro
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greetings!
i've owned a licence to pte for a while, but only started playing with it recently. i'd like to share my first multislide show (my other shows, inspired by lin's great ones, involved only panning and zooming a single large pano, and are quite heavy). this one finally involves several slides, and there are 2 versions of it, the lite one should be gentler on your ram and video card (the difference is in a single slide). the subject is a small tower that used to belong to an oil refinery since closed. it was smelly and ugly, but was renovated a few years ago, and is now nicely integrated in its new surroundings and quite photogenic.
here it is: http://pwp.netcabo.pt/peterpano/TorreGalp_lite.zip and http://pwp.netcabo.pt/peterpano/TorreGalp.zip .
i've used this as an means to learn some pte. it's been a very steep learning curve, but it's been a lot of fun!
it goes without saying (but i'll say it anyway), i could not have done any of this without the help of the forum regulars, whose tutorials and replies i've begun to study. so, a big thanx to you!
i'm not too unhappy about the show (about 12mb either version), but would welcome comments, especially if critical.
cheers,
pedro
[edited aug 16 2007 to include filesize]
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no worries, glad it served the intended purpose! your alias and interests also brought a smile to my face, thinking of when notation [w]as a tool of thought...
cheers,
pedro